Portfolio 2020

P O R T FOLIO

Elena Wong A rc h i t e c t K ey w o rks 2 0 1 3 - 2 0 1 9

TABLE OF CONTENTS

In Practice

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Myntgata 2

2018/2019

Co-working + tech hub

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Peckham Levels

Community campus

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All Saints Youth Hall

Community project

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Kennington Studios

Work space transformation

Student Projects

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Space Regained

2015/2017

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2017

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Juxtaposition

Transformation: Regjeringskvartalet

Abstraction of urban space

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Suburbia

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The Workhouse

Residential/row houses

Live/work collective

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Festival Forest

2014

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The Rough Theatre

Student competition

Experimental theatre

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The Twisting Townhouse

2013/2014

Appendix

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Housing

- All drawings, illustrations and visualisations represented in this document are made by me

Myntgata 2 Oslo Works

Cl i e n t As p e l i n Ra mm Ei e n d o m Lo c a t i o n Os l o , No r wa y S t a t u s Pro j e c t c o mp l e t e d , Au g u st 2 0 1 9

Myntgata 2 har been my main project whilst working for Oslo Works, a complete renovation of the old artilery stable. Previous use of the space was traditional office space from the 1960’s, consisting of long corridors and cell offices. As we move into a different kind of contemporary work life, our buildings need to be adapted to provide the right environment for for startups, freelancers and growing businesses. Myntgata 2

OSLO WORKS

was carefully planned with the intent of becoming an incubator and creative hub for a growing tech-community and educational institutions.

With a low budget but with a beautiful shell, we were able to make a stripped down, raw and unpretencious transformation - with focus on existing materials, inhouse designed joinery and furniture elements.

2018-2019

A bove

OSLO WORKS

F rom drawing to built: custom made raw steel rai ling and hot-desk seating w ith plyw ood elem ents

2018-2019

A bove

M yntgata 2 A mfi and lecture hall - double height transform ation

A bove

M yntgata 2 bar lounge interiors

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BI-INNGANG

Inngan 14 Inngang/ trapp 21.1 m²

Møte 18.6 m²

Møte 24.6 m²

WC 2.2 m²

Store sal 174.3 m²

Scene

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20.6 m²

Konferanserom 71.0 m²

Møte 17.5 m²

Møte 23.1 m²

Ikke tilgj.

19.0 m²

WC 16.9 m²

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Møte 14.5 m²

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SYDTÅRNET

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Konferanserom: 63 stoler

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Møteromspool: 5 møterom 1 ufomell møtelounge

Formidlingssal stor: 143 stoler + ståplasser på mesanin

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Plan 01 1 : 200

T 14 Trapp 26.4 m²

Møte 19.2 m² Studio 24.5 m²

WC 16.9 m²

Landskap 136.0 m²

ÅPENT NED

Mesanin 81.2 m²

Lo 75

Kontor 69.9 m²

SYDTÅRNET Selskap B: 10 arbeidsplasser

A bove P lan 1 + P lan 2

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MIDTT Selskap C: 26 arbeidsplasser 4 uformelle

Formidlingssal stor: 143 stoler + ståplasser på mesanin

HOVED

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SYDTÅRNET

OSLO WORKS

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GÅRD 2 møterom

Plan 01- riveplan 1 : 200

MIDTT

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DINNGANG

BI-INNGANG

Kontor Inngang/ trapp 11.1 m² 13.2 m²

ng/ trapp 4.2 m² Tekn.

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Entre .5 m²

Kontor 16.0 m²

WC 2.5 m²

WC 16.1 m² Work lounge 223.6 m²

Lille sal 114.4 m²

WC 2.5 m²

Kontor 10.2 m²

Kjøkken

Kontor 12.3 m²

TÅRNET

Kontor 18.1 m²

NORDTÅRNET Fleksible arbeidsplasser: 46 arbeidsplasser

Formidlingssal liten: 70 plasser i amfi

SLOTTSGATE

Selskap A: 11 arbeidsplasser

Trapp 4.2 m² Møte 19.2 m² Møte 18.0 m²

WC 16.1 m²

Landskap 86.7 m²

ÅPENT NED

Mesanin 25.8 m²

Studio 23.2 m²

Kontor 17.3 m²

Kontor 17.3 m²

Denne tegning omfattes av lov om o Enhver disponering av arkitektens m

Landskap 78.3 m²

ounge 5.9 m²

Tegn.navn Kontor 15.1 m²

Møte 8.1 m²

TÅRNET

DSROM m

DINNGANG

Plan 1

NORDTÅRNET Formidlingssal liten: 70 plasser i amfi 2 møterom

Selskap D: 14 arbeidsplasser

Selskap E: 16 arbeidsplasser

Selskap F: 10 arbeidsplasser

BI-INNGANG

Rette

Denne tegning omfattes av lov om o Enhver disponering av arkitektens m

TÅRNET

SLOTTSGATE

Kontor 29.8 m²

Tegn.navn

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OSLO WORKS

2018-2019

Plan 2 Prosjekt

Peckham Levels Carl Turner Architects

Cl i e n t M a k e S h i f t Lt d Lo c a t i o n Pe c k h a m, Lo n d o n S t a t u s Pro j e c t c o mp l e t e d , Fe b r u a ry 2 0 1 8

The projects i have worked on during my employment at Carl Turner Architects has primarily been feasibility studies for meanwhile sites around the London area and participating in developing the transformation scheme Peckham Levels from competition stage to tender.

In addition, i have had a significant role in developing visual representation and developing presentation material for clients, PR purposes and public talks ranging from photo-realistic rendering, isonometric diagrams, collages, presentation boards and documents.

CARL TURNER ARCHITECTS

Peckham Levels is an innovative workplace campus, delivered in collaboration with the social enterprise, Makeshift, and designed to support and inspire a new community of artists, makers and entrepreneurs.

The projects seeks to transform the inner levels of a multi-storey car park in the centre of Peckham into a makeshift creative workshop for artists, designers, makers and doers. Spread over 7 floors, it will turn the currently empty structure into 90,000 sq ft of workspaces, artists’ studios, public areas, event venues and community space. When fully occupied, it will house a community of over 600 independent, creative members.

2015-2017

A b ove Concept drawing

CARL TURNER ARCHITECTS

2015-2017

CARL TURNER ARCHITECTS

2015-2017

Multi Storey Ambition

The idea for Peckham Levels was born when Southwark Council asked the community to propose a new use for the empty interior levels within the underused multi-storey car park in the heart of Peckham.

Their brief highlighted the potential this space had to support employment and the arts, and asked for suggestions for temporary projects that could take up residence in the car park for 5 years.

Dozens of ideas were submitted by architects, entrepreneurs and community groups. The Make Shift team and Carl Turner Architects worked together on a proposal, and in November 2015 Peckham Levels was selected as the winning bid.

Since then we’ve been busy working with the community, finding our members and getting our hands dirty building Peckham Levels, and the site opened its doors for the first time in December 2017.

Peckham Levels is the second project by Make Shift, who launched Pop Brixton in 2015. Make Shift transforms derelict areas and empty buildings into new creative destinations that offer lasting opportunities to small businesses and local people.

CARL TURNER ARCHITECTS

2015-2017

Incubation through transformation

Since completion in february 2018, this 6 year temporary occupation of a multi storey car park has become one of South Londons biggest cultural and social hot spots.

The interior fit-out of the 6 storey car park is a joint collaboration between the architects, the creative community and the tenants that occupy the spaces. The aim of the project was always to have the local community at the centre, and for us designers to provide the shell and incubator space in which creativity may blossom.

The project was completed through a Design & build contract, appointed by Make Shift Ltd.

CARL TURNER ARCHITECTS

2015-2017

A b o v e I n t e r i o r i l l u stration of car park transformation

CARL TURNER ARCHITECTS

2015-2017

All Saints Youth Hall Lifeboat Studio

Cl i e n t Al l S a i n t s Ch u rc h , Pe c k ha m Lo c a t i o n Pe c k h a m, Lo n d o n S t a t u s Co mp l e t e d , De c e mb e r 2 0 1 7

Lifeboat Studio have been working with All Saints Church Peckham to deliver a cost efficient workspace to host the ever-expanding Sunday School Program.

development of the project’s design & construction to include the local community and youth group of the church.

The project is a collaborative effort, with building elements directly developed alongside children participant in the program, making it their own!

Lifeboat Studio have been running workshops in the

The youth space was completed in December 2017.

A bove Sectional perspective concept

LIFEBOAT STUDIO

2017

A b o v e E v e n t s p a c e view

LIFEBOAT STUDIO

2017

Kennington Studios Lifeboat Studio

Cl i e n t S t . An s e l m Ch u rc h Lo c a t i o n Ke n n i n g t o n , Lo n d o n S t a t u s Fe a s i b i l i t y s t u d y c o mp l e ted , M a rch 2 0 1 7

Lifeboat Studio made a proposal for meanwhile use of 13 empty garage units in South London, refurbishing the existing shells and transforming them into affordable workspaces. Each studio unit would be provided with power, lighting, glazed double doors, security shutters and an insulated, varnished timber shell: the aim is to efficiently reactivate the unused lock-ups to

provide cost-effective workspace for local social enterprises.

Adjacent a proposal has also been made to transform a garage unit into a connecting event/supper club space in collaboration with London Cooking Project.

Above Sectional perspective concept

LIFEBOAT STUDIO

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A b o v e E vent space view

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Lifeboat Studio

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A b o v e C ourt yard view

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Space Regained Master Thesis

Br i e f Tr a n s f o r ma t i o n o f t h e Norw eg i a n G o vern m en t Q u a rt er Lo c a t i o n Os l o , No r wa y Du r a t i o n 1 S e me s t e r

The Government quarter in Oslo is defined by a concentration government offices, located in the north part of Oslos inner city, and is the location where Norway was forever changed by the bombings of July 22nd 2011. The buildings that were most affected by this incident were ’Y-blokken’ and ’Høyblokken’, which have been a subject to a major national debate in retrospect, concerning possible demolition or rehabilitation, and if they do in fact qualify as national heritage. In this context, the project

aims to treat these two buildings as national treasures, and use transformation as a tool for the development of new urban space. Instead of government offices, the buildings are assigned a new function as photographic centre + photography school, which aims to reactivate the area as a new cultural and social hub in Oslo. The project also aims to provoke the existing architecture and suggest how transforming historic structures can activate and bring new life to a socially challenged urban space.

A b ove Sectional perspective

The Royal Danish Academy of Arts: Mastersprogramme, Studio: Architecture, Space and time

2013-2015

Space Regained

Above Aerial view

Master Thesis Project

The Government quarter in Oslo is defined by a concentration government offies, located

in the north part of Oslos inner city, and is the location where Norway was forever changed by the bombings of july 22nd 2011. The buildings that were most affected by this incident were ’Y-blokken’ and ’Høyblokken’, which have been a subject to a major national debate in retrospect, concerning possible demolition or rehabilitation, and if they do in fact qualify Lo c a t ion Norwa y as national heritage. In this context, the project aims to treat these two buildings as nationBr ie f Transforma tion o f t he No r w eg i an al treasures, and use transformation as a tool for the development of new urban space.

Go v er n me nt Qu ar t er Instead of government offices, the buildings are assigned a new function as photographic centre + photography school, which aims to reactivate the area as a new cultural and Typ e Indiv idua l proje ct social hub in Oslo. The project also aims to provoke the existing architecture and suggest Dur a t ion 1 Seme s ter how transforming historic structures can activate and bring new life to a socially challenged space.

The Royal Danish Academy of Arts: Mastersprogramme, Studio:urban Architecture , Space and time

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Above Aerial Photo Oslo Opposite Perspectivee section west, through main entrance

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Redefining urban typology

The refined landscape structure functions as a plateau that moves on the underside of the existing building structure. Through the plateau, two cuts lead through the landscape down to the entrance of the photographic centre in the basement, while the terrain is lifted up to the 1.floor of Y-blokken. The plateau leads a fluent circulation around the existing gain, where the sloping topography moves into a series of different conditions through the soft transitions of the surface. Through these architectural measures, a new topography is formed, where the existing buildings are lifted up as independent elements in an open urban space. They hereby keep their monumental value, with reference to their heritage in the modernist era.

The Royal Danish Academy of Arts: Mastersprogramme, Studio: Architecture, Space and time

Above Elem ental bu ild u p d ia g r a m

2013-2015

A bove E ntrance view / gallery view

The Royal Danish Academy of Arts: Mastersprogramme, Studio: Architecture, Space and time

2013-2015

Transitions / connections With reference to the existing basement, the plan has been reshaped to connect Høyblokken and Y-blokken to one interconnected plan, both using existing walls and structural elements, and adding new elements to form a new architectural form.

Through the exterior cuts in the landscape, the slope leads into the main gallery area and up through a series of ramps throughout the photographic centre. The transparent transitions from the outside to the inside is used as a tool to connect all the topographic elements of the site, into one fluent motion.

The Royal Danish Academy of Arts: Mastersprogramme, Studio: Architecture, Space and time

2013-2015

A b ove Gradual sectional perspectives

The Royal Danish Academy of Arts: Mastersprogramme, Studio: Architecture, Space and time

2013-2015

Suburbia Defining Måløv

Br i e f Ge n e r a t i n g v i l l a g e s i n t h e d a n i sh su b u rb a n n ew d evel o p m en t a rea s Lo c a t i o n M å l ø v, De n ma r k Du r a t i o n 2 M o n t h s

Måløv appears in the distance as the train from central Copenhagen stops. It opens up beneath the train lines and closes up again as the emptiness of the artificial building development is approaching. Cold, silent and grey.

The project undertakes the issue of suburban development and is a proposal that looks at the individuality in the common. Every house built around the same basis,

The Royal Danish Academy of Arts: Mastersprogramme, Studio: Architecture, Culture and Habitat

but broken up by the formation of the landscape. In a split ‘masterplan’ project between 3 students, we were each given a purpose of our plot, where mine would represent the ‘social hub’. In this respect i have focused on the formation of a suburban street with urban character and a common house for the residents in the area.

2013-2015

A b o v e G a rd e n Vi e w / models in cardboard

The Royal Danish Academy of Arts: Mastersprogramme, Studio: Architecture, Culture and Habitat

2013-2015

A b o ve Typical residential unit

Redifining of a typology The organisation of the housing units derives from the natural formation of the landscape and the existing trail lines. The curved lines at site gave grounds for the idea of a housing typology where threshold and split between the units were given a central role and would bestow qualities that could play on the notion of individuality and locality.

The project was much inspired by American suburban housing, but with the attempt to individualise the homogeneous nature of similar housing projects.

The Royal Danish Academy of Arts: Mastersprogramme, Studio: Architecture, Culture and Habitat

2013-2015

A b o v e S t re e t Vi e w

The Royal Danish Academy of Arts: Mastersprogramme, Studio: Architecture, Culture and Habitat

2013-2015

A b o v e E x t e r i o r Vi ew

The Royal Danish Academy of Arts: Mastersprogramme, Studio: Architecture, Culture and Habitat

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Festival Forest Concept for ‘120 Hours’

Bri e f M e e t i n g p o i n t f a c i l i t a t i n g s o ci a l a n d en vi ro n m en t a l a w a ren essa t Ø ya m u si c f est i va l Lo c a t i o n Os l o , No r wa y Du r a t i o n 1 2 0 Ho u r s

A b ove Siteplan( s)

120 HOURS

Student competition

2014

Norwegian wood

The ‘prototypes’ of the timber members’ speak to the uniformity in contemporary construction, but is broken down by the periodical trees piercing through the timber frame, and with the irregularities of the structure as a whole. The duality between these elements refer to the concept of human invasion and natural imitation, enforcing reflection upon this topic through built form. The structure can be seen as an artificial forest and an abstraction of the key associations we have of nature, being a structure and an organism at once. Living parallel to nature and using nature in the everyday life is a cultural phenomenon that lies deeply embedded within the Norwegian culture. By creating this man-made forest, it refers to the fundamental sense of being enclosed by natural elements, but also puts to question natures position in relation to the urban realm.

Embracing one of the main trails leading through the site, this structure forms a semi-enclosed passage between the two stages, both connecting and separating the two areas. In doing this, the festival will gain a more intimate experience on either side, brought together by light, form and immediate interaction. In the obstructions of the timber members, one is at once confronted with the movements of the flickering shadows and people passing through, and always coming out to a different stage on the other side. The language of the structure intents to form a dialog between organic and manufactured, challenging the relationship between the natural and the man-made.

Above typical structure b u ild u p

120 HOURS

Student competition

2014

The Twisting Townhouse An Urban Transition

Br i e f Ur b a n I n f i l l Lo c a t i o n Co p e n h a g e n , De n ma r k Du r a t i o n 1 S e me s t e r

In the historically dense Store Kongensgade in Copenhagen, this street remains bound by its strictly gridded layout and rococo facades, whilst the true secret of the city is found in the backyards of the city blocks . The brief called for a residential/mixed use structure situated at a cornered site, to rejuvenate and lift the feel

and experience of the area. My project aimed to create a transparency between the inner and outer world of these streets, and seek the irregular in regularity; to find a way to bring the backyard chaos in the ordered street scape, and mould it into one entity.

A b ove Concept models in balsa wood

The Royal Danish Academy of Arts: Mastersprogramme, Studio: Architecture, Culture and Habitat

2013-2015

A b o v e C o n c e p t i l l ustration

The Royal Danish Academy of Arts: Mastersprogramme, Studio: Architecture, Culture and Habitat

2013-2015

The shell and the torso

In the merging of the inner and outer space, there is a pattern that is trembling. Where the shell meets the torso, a new network of space is formed, where the irregular melts into a new form of regularity; where the chaotic gains its order.

The gap between the physical and the abstract is broken down where autonomy claims its role. The relationship between the shell and the torso creates a transitional effect that changes with the movement along the street.

The rigid outline of the building thus becomes broken by the angular element that reveals itself to the pedestrian.

The contextual framework is contained, yet introducing a curious new urban form.

The angles of the inner facade forms the ‘torso’ of the building, as the formal grid of the outer facade forms the ‘shell’. The space between the angular shifts become part of the outer areas, setting the outline for two conformative factors in the inner space.

The main circulation runs in 3 series of twisting hallways, sliced from the stairway shafts on the street facing side.

Above interior view / typical flat

The Royal Danish Academy of Arts: Mastersprogramme, Studio: Architecture, Culture and Habitat

2013-2015

A b o v e C o u r t y a rd v iew

The Royal Danish Academy of Arts: Mastersprogramme, Studio: Architecture, Culture and Habitat

2013-2015

The Royal Danish Academy of Arts: Mastersprogramme, Studio: Architecture, Culture and Habitat

2013-2015

A b o v e Typical floor plan B e l o w F ront view / sreet view

The Royal Danish Academy of Arts: Mastersprogramme, Studio: Architecture, Culture and Habitat

2013-2015

Juxtaposition A Sense of Urban Space

Br i e f Ab s t r a c t i o n o f u r b a n g r a in Lo c a t i o n Co p e n h a g e n , De n ma r k Du r a t i o n 2 We e k s

In this pre-project assignment the task was to make a 1:20 model of an emotional impression of the Copenhagen facades. I chose to focus on the contrasting nature of the facade against the backyards. My intention with this expression was to display the facade as something hard, something permanent, and the stories behind it as something ever changing and beautifully

chaotic. Through the surfaces of the facade you may get a glimpse of that story, but it doesn’t truly unveil until you place yourself within the unknown. In a way, this comprehension of a facade also speaks to the city as a whole, and the constant search for magic behind those closed walls and city blocks.

Below Model in painted MD F and b a ls a w o o d

The Royal Danish Academy of Arts: Mastersprogramme, Studio: Architecture, Culture and Habitat

2013-2015

B elow M odel in painted M DF and b alsa w ood

The Royal Danish Academy of Arts: Mastersprogramme, Studio: Architecture, Culture and Habitat

2013-2015

The Workhouse Bachelor Thesis Project

Br i e f Ho me l e s s s h e l t e r / s e l f - s u f f i ci en t co m m u n i t y Lo c a t i o n Gl o u c e s t e r, Un i t e d Ki n g d o n Du r a t i o n 1 S e me s t e r

Situated in the outskirts of the industrial city of Gloucester, my chosen site sits on an old railway depot, revealing traces of unused railway tracks and a maintenance shed. Additionally, the site echoes the ruins of a 19th century working class area that was the home of the poor and homeless. Today the UK suffers from unemployment and rising homelessness nationwide. How does one approach this increasing social issue? Homelessness and unemployment go hand in hand, so i have

University of Bath: Bsc (hons) General Architectural Studies

made it my agenda to create a community where the homeless and unemployed may live and work in a self sufficient collective that may give hope that it may just be possible to adopt the principles of a pre-industrial life, for the benefit of people and local collaboration.

A furniture recycling centre, wood workshop, lumber yard, forest. A co-housing scheme and a homeless shelter. Drop off, fix it up, sell it, earn to live and provide funds for the community.

2009-2013

A b o v e E x t e r i o r Vi s ualisation

University of Bath: Bsc (hons) General Architectural Studies

2009-2013

IN / OUTGOING COMMUNAL AREA EMERGENCY HOMELESS SHELTER 1 SAWMILL/LUMBER STORAGE 2 RECYCLING STORAGE UNIT 3 RECEPTION 4 MARKET HALL

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The workhouse offers a furniture recycling centre for the local community of Gloucester. Furniture and larger domestic items are often difficult to dispose of and can often be expensive and inconvenient. It will thereby offer an alternative to disposal by reuse and resell.

All refurbished furniture and new wood work will be sold in their market hall, funding the organisation and in-house residents.

WOOD WORKING 5 PLANT ROOM 6 SUPERVISOR OFFICE 7 WC 8 JOINERY WORKSHOP 9 UPHOLSTERY/ DESIGN WORKSHOP 10 FINISHING WORKSHOP

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fix The in-house residents are provided with wood working apprenticeships.

Working with both furniture remake from the recycling centre and timber from their own forest in joinery, upholstery and finishing workshops.

Cut offs from all wood work and planted forest will be converted into biomass fuel and will alongside pv solar-panels present the workhouse as a self-sufficient community. Communal common areas and dining, but private ensuite flats for the residents.

11 KITCHEN 12 PLANT ROOM 13 WC 14 DINING HALL 15 COMMON ROOM 16 STUDY

give All additional funding from the market hall income will run the emergency homeless shelter for those immediately affected by homelessness in the district.

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University of Bath: Bsc (hons) General Architectural Studies

2009-2013

Above Exterior / in te r io r w in d o w d e ta il

Build up 1. The timber members are fixed to the floor surface with prefabricated metal building components. These components fix the horisontal, vertical and diagonal members together.

2. Through customised cuts in the timber members on the outward side of the corridor structure, a double glazed window with aluminum frame is fitted.

3. A secondary timber frame is fitted in front of the aluminum window frame, running flush with the structure to reveal the timber elements as one.

University of Bath: Bsc (hons) General Architectural Studies

2009-2013

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20 mm charred larch planks 80 x 50 mm battens 25 mm counter battens water proof membrane 15 mm plywood 175 mm fibre glass insulation vapour barrier 50 mm rigid insulation 10 mm plywood 10 mm larch panel

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10 mm hardwood floor finish 80 mm cement screed polythene separating layer 20 mm thermal insulation 20 mm acoustic insulation massive timber floor system 250 x 75 mm rafters

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60 mm cement screed separating layer 70 mm thermal insulation damp proof course 30 mm thermal insulation vapour barrier 350 mm reinforced concrete slab 4

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2 x 5 mm laminated glass 15 mm cavity 6 mm toughened glass aluminum frame fit inside timber structure timber cladding fixed to structure

Above C onstructio n d e ta il - ty p ic a l h o u s e

University of Bath: Bsc (hons) General Architectural Studies

2009-2013

The Rough Theatre The Basil Spence Project

Br i e f Te mp o r a r y t h e a t re f o r t h e N a t i o n a l T h ea t re, L o n d o n Lo c a t i o n Lo n d o n , Un i t e d Ki n g d o n Du r a t i o n 1 S e me s t e r

In a collaboration between the engineering- and architecture department, the 4th year ‘Basil Spence Project’ called for a temporary theatre and foyer on the site of the National Theatre, London. Embracing the spirit of experimental theatre, we called our structure ‘The Rough Theatre’, a theatre that is not authoritative nor conventional; it is ostentatious. The theatre was designed as a response to the concept of experimental

University of Bath: Bsc (hons) General Architectural Studies

theatre itself, how architecture expression could speak the same language as performance, how the very concept of theatre could be turned and twisted into a new.

This is why this theatre takes shape of a trasverse stage, a pop-up theatre, an urban discovery, an unexpected and confused element tucked between the existing National theatre and the London traffic.

2009-2013

A b o v e E x t e r i o r v i e w from National T heatre

University of Bath: Bsc (hons) General Architectural Studies

2009-2013

A bove Underhead / overhead plan

University of Bath: Bsc (hons) General Architectural Studies

2009-2013

The Trasverse Theatre Reflection | Drawing a line across the middle of the auditorium one can consider one half to be a classic end stage formation and the other being its mirror image. Despite appearing as separate entities, they work in complete dependence to each other. Positioned in direct opposition, each half, each body, each audience member inevitably experiences a visual and mental connection with the other. A relationship extending from trust to tension is created; emotions are exchanged either in accord or in battle, hence a confrontation is established.

Confrontation | The theatre takes the shape of a traverse stage, where the audience is on two sides, facing each other. The advantage of this seating configuration is in the intimate staging whereby the actors can use the audience for greater effect. It is best suited to scenes of confrontation, not only between actors on stage, but also between audience members.

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Reaction | Spectators are given a deeper understanding of the performance when faced with the reactions of those sitting in front of them. Even when an actor may give their back to one half, the energy exuding from the given side will inform and enthrall the people on the other side in a way unlike any traditional theatre would. The actors use the audience to their best advantage, engaging them not only with the performance but also with the connection between themselves.

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A b o v e Underhead of theatre view

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ROOF

AUDITORIUM

SKIN

SUPPORTING STRUCTURE

PAVILIONS

CLOSED

OPEN

The auditorium is enclosed within an envelope, where the solidity of the exterior is emphasised.

A lightweight envelope acts as a veil exposing and accentuating the auditorium and the nature of its form.

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SEPARATED

CAGE

BALANCED

PROPPED

Still with its lightweight envelope, the auditorium acts as its own entity, independent from the skin.

The structure is a predominant feature as it wraps around the auditorium acting as the primary support system.

The structure is minimised in order to open up the space below and to bring focus to the auditorium.

The auditorium is structurally independent and sits atop the structure.

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A b o v e M o d e l in balsawood + plywood

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2009-2013

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S t a t u s Pe r s o n a l i n i t i a t i v e , a s p a rt o f A t el i er H Ăź i l l u st ra t i o n s Lo c a t i o n Lo n d o n , Un i t e d Ki n g d o n

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